An 80-year-old Niçoise, who was swimming alone this Monday morning off an unsupervised beach between Saint-Laurent-du-Var and Cagnes-sur-Mer (Alpes-Maritimes), has passed away, reports Nice Matin.
She was a few tens of meters from the shore, near the yellow buoys, when bathers saw her on the belly. They threw themselves into the water to rescue him, but it was too late.
The octogenarian has likely been a victim of cardiac arrest.
Rescuers recalled that it was better to swim off a beach that has an aid station, back and forth parallel to the edge, 10 or 20 meters, rather than swim to the beach. buoy, which are located 200 meters from the edge, and if possible do not bathe alone, especially when one is old.
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